I agree. I don't have any answers. There are some subjects that I don't generally look at at all: flowers, motor bikes, cars, cats, etc. but there are people who seem perfectly happy to look through each one of a large number of samey pictures, so I guess it's different strolks for different fokes.
I have 2 pet peeves (as far as PDML galleries goes), one of which I vented a week or two ago, about people posting several links, rather than a single link to a gallery. The other peeve is people posting a link to a single photograph and expecting us to follow the next buttons without having an overview. The answers I don't have is this: a single link to a gallery page or two of reasonably-sized thumbnails gives people an overview and they can pick and choose individual pictures to look at, or click through them all with the next button. That seems to give the most choice without imposing on people. In user interface design there is a thing called Shneiderman's Mantra: "Overview first, zoom and filter, then details-on-demand" This can be expanded into 7 basic interface tasks - not all relevant to our situation, but nevertheless worth considering: Overview: Gain an overview of the entire collection. Zoom: Zoom in on items of interest allowing a more detailed view. Filter: Filter out uninteresting items reducing the size of search. Details-on-demand: Select an item or group and get details when needed. Relate: View relationships among items History: Keep a history of actions to support undo, replay, and progressive refinement allowing a mistake to be undone, or a series of steps to be replayed. Extract: Allow extraction of sub-collections and saving, printing or dragging to another application. B > -----Original Message----- > From: pdml-boun...@pdml.net [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of > Rick Womer > Sent: 26 June 2011 16:33 > To: Pentax List > Subject: The GESO Dilemma > > I've been looking over the view counts that photo.net provides on my > photos. > > Photos I post in a gallery (GESO) get only 1/5 to 1/10 as many views as > photos posted singly (PESO). There are several shots that languished > in GESOs for weeks with 20 views; posting them as PESOs zoomed the > views to 150. > > Everyone likes to have their photos seen, but sometimes single photos > don't tell the desired story, and only a gallery will do the job; but > the GESO header dooms one's photos to obscurity. > > I confess that I hesitate to open GESOs myself. > > Too many GESOs are far too large, repetitive, and tedious. It's common > to see a dozen shots of runners/cyclists/motorcycles/race cars going > around the same curve, from the same angle, in the same light. > Galleries of a dozen shots of the same flower abound. Somewhere in all > those shots there are often one or two that are gems, but the viewer > shouldn't be asked to do the editing for the photographer. > > This leads to two proposals: > > First, that all of us give more attention to editing our galleries. > > Second, that the subject line indicate how large the gallery is; for > example, "GESO(12) - Dog Poop" tells the viewer that twelve shots of > Spot's output lurk behind. That might encourage more careful editing, > and allay the fears of viewers that following the link is going to keep > them busy for an hour. > > Now I'm going to puzzle over how best to post more Toronto pictures. > > Rick > > > http://photo.net/photos/RickW > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
